LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 4.
THURSDAY, 10TH APRIL, 1902.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (Major-General Sir WILLIAM JULIUS GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G.).
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The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G.).
the Acting Attorney General, (ALFRED GASCOYNE WISE). the Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON). the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.).
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the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM).
ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN.
Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.
THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD,
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JAMES JARDINE BELL-IRVING.
JOHN THURBURN.
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ABSENT:
The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, C.M.G.
The Council met pursuant to summons.'
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 26th March, 1902, were read and confirined. PAPERS. The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the following papers :-
1. Report of the Public Works Commission.
2. Report of the Committee on Education.
3. Memoranda by Professor SIMPSON on Plague Prevention.
4. Report on the Sanitary Condition of Hongkong.
5. Papers regarding the New Post Office.
FINANCIAL MINUTES.-The Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering, the Government. laid on the table the following Financial Minutes, (Nos. 10, 11 and 12), and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee :-
C.S.O. 703 of 1902.
C.S.O.
524 of 1900.
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$17 of 1902.
W. J. GASCOIGNE.
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The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a One thousand five hundred and eighty-six Dollars and Twenty Cents ($1,586.20) being a sum equal to the unexpended portion of the vote for 1901 for laying out Mountain Lodge grounds.
Government House, Hongkong, 21st March, 1902.
W. J. GASCOIGNE.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand and four hundred Dollars ($1,400), being a sum equal to the unexpended vote for 1901 for the construction of locked private letter boxes for the use of the General Post Office.
Government House, Hongkong, 4th April. 1902.
W. J. GASCOIGNE.
The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Four hundred and thirty-three Dollars and Thirty-two Cents ($433.32) to meet the cost of the rent of The Cliffs" for the two first months of the current year.
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Governinent House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1902.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
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